NEW SOUTH WALES - DOCUMENTS & EPHEMERA

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1817 Bill of Lading: for goods loaded on the Duke of Wellington at Cape Town for Sydney. The Consignment included 18 pipes (about 126 gallons x18) of rum & 6 pipes (about 92 gallons x6) of Cape Madeira. Import duty of 7/- per gallon was collected by Capt John Piper and paid to the Orphans Fund. A very rare document.

TASMANIA - Postal History

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1819 (Jan 6) lengthy entire from London to John Drummond Esquire, Naval Officer (the customs official) at the Derwent, Van Diemans-land, from his brother requesting that he return home, Rated "1/9" in red. Received 28th June. A very early inwards letter. [John Drummond had been deemed unfit to return to his duties after being arrested for the murder of his sister-in-law's child, which he had fathered. He was not convicted and returned home to England in 1820.]

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1,920.00 R

NORFOLK ISLAND

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1774 Maps of Norfolk Island three examples from different publications; also two Pitcairns lithographs (spotting) one showing John Adams mutineer & Pitcairn settler, the other showing a coastal scene. (5 items)